In Pursuit of Lavender
In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination -'twenty ells of linen are worth a coat' - that plays over and over in her mind, escapes from a mental hospital with a young man. This is the story of their journey together.The hallucinatory words come from a passage in Marx's Das Kapital, but the protagonist knows nothing of that; nor does she understand what they literally mean. After she starts to hear them, she attempts suicide and is then diagnosed as manic and placed in a mental hospital. Unable to stand life in the prison-like hospital, she makes a daring escape with Nagoyan, another pati…
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Weitere Autoren: De Wolf, Charles (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85728-054-1
- EAN: 9780857280541
- Produktnummer: 22909259
- Verlag: Anthem Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 104 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 169 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Akiko Itoyama (born 1966) is a Japanese writer and winner of the Bungakukai New Face Award (2003), the Kawabata Yasunari Prize (2004) and the 134th Akutagawa Prize (2005).Charles De Wolf is a writer, linguist, and translator of Japanese literature, both classical and modern.
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